The open source project was started before Copperhead existed and long before it was incorporated. The project was never directly owned or controlled by the company, as that was an explicit condition of the collaboration with the company. GrapheneOS is the continuation of that original project, but a lot has been learned and it will never become associated with another company or organization to the same extent. The purpose and values behind the project were eroded by the association with a company focused on a business model. It was a problematic relationship long before you heard about it and eventually Copperhead betrayed the project. You can see for yourself that they made a bunch of ultimatums and threats trying to take over the project and end the independence from the company. They failed at doing that, but they succeeded at hijacking all of the infrastructure and preventing it from ever pushing out another update to the existing installs. The OS was never compromised, but it lost all of the infrastructure and resources supporting it so it has taken a long time to even get some basics back up and running. Most of the initial focus after the disaster was on standalone projects like https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc and https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Auditor. It took a long time to get things back up and running, and it has definitely been massively set back both not only in terms of the development work but also in many other ways. It has still managed to continue onwards and while the OS itself hasn't been fully restored, there's a bunch of useful standalone work that's far better than anything the project offered in the past.
You're substantially misrepresenting the events that occurred based on a very incomplete account of the events that you've seen. People seeing your comment are going to end up with an incorrect understanding, just as you did. You're stating your assumptions and misconceptions about what happened as if they're facts. It's a very incorrect account of a very small part of the story. This game of broken telephone where people misinform themselves and then propagate variations of that to many other people is a poor way of spreading knowledge.
I don't think he's representing or misrepresenting much at all. Most of his comment (like mine) talks about what we don't know and asks questions, and like mine admits it would be hard to know anything even if we were told what "really" happened.
>It was a problematic relationship long before you heard about it
Probably day 1 as it sounds like there was a fundamental conflict with the business and non business entities, I don't get what anyone thought such an arrangement would really do that would be positive. Hopefully everyone learned from their experience, can do some good work now, and can avoid such things in the future.
You're substantially misrepresenting the events that occurred based on a very incomplete account of the events that you've seen. People seeing your comment are going to end up with an incorrect understanding, just as you did. You're stating your assumptions and misconceptions about what happened as if they're facts. It's a very incorrect account of a very small part of the story. This game of broken telephone where people misinform themselves and then propagate variations of that to many other people is a poor way of spreading knowledge.